{"id":1706,"date":"2015-08-20T01:11:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T01:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2017-09-08T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:57:20","slug":"why-success-is-as-dangerous-as-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/why-success-is-as-dangerous-as-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Success Is As Dangerous As Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>There are numerous similarities between Yoga and Taoism. Both can influence our notion of success.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1708\" src=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success.jpg\" alt=\"success\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success.jpg 1885w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/success-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Success is as dangerous as failure.<br \/>\nHope is as hollow as fear.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?<br \/>\nWhether you go up the ladder or down it,<br \/>\nyou position is <a href=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/yoga-class-402-flexibility-and-stability\" target=\"_blank\">shaky<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhen you stand with your two feet on the ground,<br \/>\nyou will always keep your <a href=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/yoga-class-332-after-work-or-travel-rebalance-and-restore\" target=\"_blank\">balance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?<br \/>\nHope and fear are both phantoms<br \/>\nthat arise from thinking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/yoga-class-327-i-am-meditation\" target=\"_blank\">self<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhen we don&#8217;t see the self as self,<br \/>\nwhat do we have to fear?<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/yoga-class-308-earth-salutation\" target=\"_blank\">world<\/a> as your self.<br \/>\nHave faith in the way things are.<br \/>\nLove the world as your self;<br \/>\nthen you can care for all things.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0<em>Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching; 13<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1722\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/yoga-class-326-yoga-nidra-for-the-big-day\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1722\" class=\"wp-image-1722\" src=\"http:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bigdaylucy-300x201.png\" alt=\"bigdaylucy\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bigdaylucy-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bigdaylucy-624x418.png 624w, https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/bigdaylucy.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to try Yoga for When you Matter. 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When you stand with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[79,307,308,306,309],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-balance","tag-hope","tag-love","tag-success","tag-tao"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Success Is As Dangerous As Failure - Movement for Modern Life Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movementformodernlife.com\/blog\/why-success-is-as-dangerous-as-failure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Success Is As Dangerous As Failure - 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